The Stranger Library Binding

A book that everyone should read

The Stranger is a haunting, challenging masterpiece of literature. While it is fiction, it manages to express the complex concepts and themes of existential philosophy better than the movement's most noted philosophical writings and almost as well as Dostoyevsky's Notes From the Underground. This is a new kind of literature. The story in and of itself is rather simple, but the insights into the intellect and feelings of the protagonist are the sources of the magic of this novel. The only author writing today who seems to have a similar style and subject matter that I have come across is Morton Bain.

Whatever you do, DO NOT READ the translation of this book by Matthew Ward.He completely missed the point of this book and in turn changed the mood of the story but most importantly attitude of the main character.I would recommend the translation by Stuart Gilbert.